Hi,

Sadly I didn't use the savegrp -O command before I deleted these volumes
from the database. Nor do I have Unix/Linux to run the commands below
and discover what the pool is. 

As a workaround, could I do the renaming of the RES folder as per my
original post? If I imported the bootstrap from these old tapes a new
\program files\legato\nsr\Res folder would be created and I'd stop the
Networker services, rename current RES to RES.old and then rename the
new Res.R to res. 

All the old groups/pools would then be recreated. Once I'd installed
from the tapes I could reverse the process and revert back to the
current RES folder. 

Would that work?


Oh hang on, exciting developments....

I've used nsrjb to load - but not mount - one of the old tapes into a
drive. I've then run scanner -Bv as a test - ran ok. A discussion on
tek-tips.com suggests that if run scanner -I against it it will import
the info to the Default pool. I'll give it a go. 





Steve Law 
Server Analyst  
(WIntel - MSLPS) 
CGI (U.K.) Limited. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of jee
Sent: 06 February 2008 19:42
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Reincorporating old tape set into Networker
media database

nsrck -L7 will not recover indices  if the savesets don't exist in the
media db anymore.
nsrck -L7 can recover client file index records only when the savesets
exist in the media db and have not expired (and marked as  (E)ligible
for recycling).

However the media db could be mm-recovered if it had been saved with
"saverp -O" as Stan suggested.

jee


On Wednesday 06 February 2008 16:53, Stan Horwitz wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Law, Steve [UK] wrote:
> 
> > Hi Stan,
> >
> > Thanks for your response. I do have scanner documented, it's just a

> > drag
> > to use. I can use "scanner -i servername" but will have to
'manually'
> > load each tape in turn, and they take hours. But if that's the only
> > way...
> >
> > However when I try to mount one of these old tapes in a drive so I
can
> > run Scanner, it refuses to load. Networker says "Will not be loaded
> > since pool "Unknown Pool" is not available. Presumably the pool no
> > longer exists. How might I find what it was so I can recreate it?
> 
> Before you cleared away those old savesets, did you back them up via  
> "savegrp -O"? If so, then all you need to do is
> 
> nsrck -L7 -t time client_name
> 
> and replace "time" with the date when you did that backup and replace

> "client_name" with the name of the client who's metadata you wish to  
> recover. This should be a lot easier than scanning back in the data.
> 
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